Method to their Madness (2024)

Notes from Melanie

A screenwriter known for ripoff "mockbusters" asks his successful former colleague for feedback on his first serious script.

#Shakespeare's Shitstorm

Mad scientist Prospero runs away with his blind daughter Miranda to Tromaville, hiding from evil pharmaceutical execs, including his own sister Antoinette who ruined his career after he found the cure against opioid addiction. With the help of a handicapped crack-whore, he releases a massive amount of laxative to whales, while his enemies are on a cruise ship to North Korea. A humongous shitstorm washes the boat away and brings them to Tromaville, where Prospero can now fully realize his ultimate vengeance.

Lorenzo

A cat named Lorenzo is dismayed to discover that his tail has developed a personality of its own.

A Grand Day Out

Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

The Wrong Trousers

Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno pants created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

A Close Shave

Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.

Antoine and Colette

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

Geraldine

Gerald is dealing with an unwanted sex change.

Girl Grief

Although terrified of girls, Charley must take a job teaching at a girls school.

Eating Late

The inner lives of sad, meek, bored and despondent diners unravel in a suburban Chinese restaurant. Narrated by Lee Lin Chin, Eating Late is a black comedy combining live-action performances with miniature sets. Captured in a single locked-off shot, the film utilises digital zooms to offer unique perspectives of a singular event.

The Duel

Two architecture students have two very different methods when creating the curriculum model for the faculty. On the day of delivery, after an accident, both will have to face a duel to the death. Based on real events that occurred at the FADU in Córdoba.

One Fine Day, a Hairdresser

How do you ask a wild, impetuous hairdresser on a date if you're a pathologically timid philosophy student with no social skills?

Off-Piste

The two best rescue workers in the region take off for their umpteenth mission. Professionalism and efficiency all around, but things don't really go as planned.

Sweet Release

The love secrets of a large family are revealed during a trajinera tour on Xochimilco, culminating in a suicide attempt during a jackpot drawing.

Kites

The three Buster Twins instruct the viewer on how fly a kite.

The Test

Three people run a test to determine if any of them have been infected by an alien.

Monster Mash

When old-school monsters Frank, Drac and Wolf are deemed "fun" by a court of elders, they're ordered to scare a suburban family or risk a sentence of party entertainers for eternity.

Modern Samurai

After their sacred katana is stolen, two swordsmen with a rocky relationship must team up to defeat a dastardly villain.

Naara

David, a clueless and cocky Spanish video blogger traveling in Africa, arrives in Benin, where he accidentally finds the truth behind an ancient legend.

Mark The Great

An inside joke between friends leads to a debate on when their friend Mark matured.

Girl Blunt

Two young women decide to use their newly found drug-dealing business to get revenge against a conniving man of their past.

Lamp Life

Bo Peep explains what happened to herself and her sheep between the events of Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 4.

A Magic Mirror

A jerk husband Sandro and his young wife Giulia have moved into a new apartment. She is unpacking, and he his lounging in the bath. When his brother Walter comes over to deliver a new wall mirror. The brother makes a pass at the young wife, as he has secretly wanted to do for years.

Love Is More Than I Can Handle

Samuel is ten years old and is madly in love with Lucía, who is twelve years old and has a master plan to get rid of the only obstacle left in her life to get what she wants: to be a writer, film critic, and rich.

M.A.M.Ó.N.: Monitor Against Mexicans Over Nationwide

M.A.M.O.N. (Monitor Against Mexicans Over Nationwide) is a satirical fantasy sci-fi short film that explores with black humor and lots of VFX the outrageous consequences of Donald Trump´s plan of banning immigration and building an enormous wall on the Mexico - US border.

I’m Not Gay

A comedic short film about two guys refusing to confess their sexual attraction towards each other.

The Letter Room

Richard, a lonely and well-meaning prison officer, is put in charge of reading and censoring the letters received by inmates.

13 Washington Square

In this comedy, a wealthy matron is terribly upset when she learns that her socialite son is planning to marry a blue collar girl.

Martian

A little boy pulls out one Martian toy from a vending machine and it turns into a real alien who takes him to his planet, where he is surronded by the toys from the vending machine, but much bigger.

Accepted

A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2

Step back into the imaginative and frankly terrifying world of Becky & Joe with Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared. In this episode: Some things change over Time.

I Was a Teenage Serial Killer

Mary was a good girl until she decides to kill all the "sexist pigs". She of course encounters many of which, and enjoys killing them.

Rosinha

A short film about love and sexuality in the old age, and the struggle to overcome social conventions.

Harris in the Spring

Band leader Phil Harris, through a misunderstanding, finds himself with a job as a professional escort, and a date to take a rich young society girl to a night club. She picks the club where the Harris band is playing. Phil is kept busy trying to keep the band from telling the girl who he really is, and to keep the girl distracted enough so she won't notice he is leading the band.

Kitty from Killarney

Kitty from Killarney is a 1926 comedy short.

Family Times

A short comedy film by Mike Mckee.

Ranch

After a drive-thru deprives food fanatic Brandon of his beloved ranch dressing, he derails his friend Dave’s first date and forces him to join an outlandish race against the clock that will put their friendship to the test.

The Launch

When a ruthless tech nerd is faced with pushback right before a big launch, he must find a way to hype up the team—and himself—before going onstage.

Modi: Know Your Audience

There are comedians who happen to be Jewish, and then there are Jewish comedians. In his debut special, Modi solidifies himself as the former; wielding his unique blend of observational comedy and hilarious insights to shine a light on an often-insular community in "Know Your Audience".

El mono relojero

El Mono relojero is a 1938 Argentine animated short film directed by Quirino Cristiani. It is the only film from this director that exists up to this day, since all his other productions (including the first two animated feature films, El Apóstol (1917) and Sin dejar rastros (1918), as well as the first animated film with sound, Peludópolis (1931)) were lost in a series of fires at the facilities where the negatives and copies were stored.